Typically I read Appendix N fiction in my bed before going to sleep. This weekend, however, I was on vacation with my wife and read HPL's "At the Mountains of Madness" over three chilly nights outside in the fog with a small fire, while the Pacific Ocean crashed into the shore roughly 200' away. That setting really enhanced the story!

What cool experience-enhancing locales have you all read in and what did you read?

Though not appendix N, I read the Dragonlance novels while training in the desert on a hillside at sunset (the end of the working day). That was fun! Lord Dunsany should be read in like some hidden stream in a forest.

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

I read LotR in the fall when I had just turned 14, it was the first fantasy literature I had ever read. Two places come to mind every time I see the book's cover. The Hobbit, I remember staying w/ my Grandparents for a week and my Grandmother had picked up The Hobbit and the trilogy for me at my request one day. I remember sitting on her bed as I drew the books from the paper bag. I always loved her bedroom set which had belonged to my Great Grandmother and now it's mine and my Wife's. The Hobbit reminds me of being in her room that day and the furniture now often reminds me of reading The Hobbit.A few weeks later I was reading The Two Towers at my family's marina (I was suppose to be busy working!). I was hidden sitting on the bulk head beside a cedar swamp. Every time I see the cover to the late 70s Ballentine edition I'm transported back to that overcast day in November sitting by the swamp.I dropped the book in a mud puddle that afternoon too.

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